Women
and Children Trafficking Problem in Bangladesh
Hasan
Mahmud, Dhaka, 05 April: Human trafficking especially children and women
trafficking has become a major problem in Bangladesh. No country is immune from
human trafficking. Each year an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 women and children
are trafficked across national borders. In Bangladesh the crime of trafficking
is mainly committed against persons who are socially and economically vulnerable.
It is known
that most of the women and children are sold as supplies of human organs. And
the traffickers use 20 main points in 16 south and south-western districts of
Bangladesh near the Indian boarder to run their trade. The main trafficking
route is the Dhaka-Mumbai-Karachi-Dubai route. There are people on both sides
of the Bangladesh-India boarder involved in this trafficking chain.
It is very
sorrowful matter that just like in other parts of Asia, Bangladeshi girls from
the villages are trafficked for about $1,000 and sold to the whorehouses and
Bangladeshi children are also largely trafficked to work in dirty, difficult
and dangerous jobs, get their body parts such as kidneys and other internal
organs or to become 'camel race jockeys' in the Arab Gulf countries.
Human trafficking
is an offense under the Bangladesh legal system. Constitution of the People's
Republic of Bangladesh prohibits forced and compulsory labour. So, the
countrymen irrespective of colour and creed hope that such an inhuman and cruel
act of child and women trafficking must be stopped at any cost in Bangladesh.
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